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Unfair? Sure. But with fame comes notoriety, especially when your source of fame is a reality show about your life. When you put out a distorted, aggrandized view of how you live, is it really so surprising that you attract warped comments in return?

The only reason more than 100 people know the Kardasians is because they have made their lively hood, being a public spectacle. That is not something that can be turned off. It is disgusting and despicable they way the Kardasians constantly harass my internet and TV time by thrusting themselves on me. (that includes the staid Althouse)

Hard to sympathize with someone who is beautiful, born into a wealthy family, and is rewarded with even more largesse simply for allowing a camera crew to follow her around, and for having a team of writers script some ginned-up drama between her and her family members. That makes it tough for us average Joes to give a crap about Mean Girls saying Mean Things about her.

What rank hypocrisy! Christensen is a former Miss Denmark and a model whose entire career is based on having an idealized body type, but it's the "media" that "persistently project a negative focus on women's physical shapes." Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian is someone who has made millions by turning the most intimate moments of her private life into public spectacle. Classic example of the cliche: if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Am I mistaken, or didn't Kim Kardashian kickstart her climb to fame by releasing her own sextape?

I agree that the way the media (and the public) treats celebrities as their own property, to be praised and petted or hated and scorned with the shallow, adolescent fickleness, is terrible and inhumane. Those who are famous and celebrated for actual achievements deriving from their own talents and ambition, (those in the arts and sciences and other areas of consequence or interest to the public) do not deserve such treatment. Actually, no one does, but those whose hunger for fame leads them to seek it by whatever means necessary or expedient and despite their having no talent or accomplishments to warrant the public's interest--in other words, those such as Kim Kardashian and her siblings, whose fame is predicated on...their "fame"...cannot fairly complain when they experience the tribulations of celebrity.

That is what has to be remembered, they made their money from being publically famous. Almost any publicity is good publicity, but it is hard to keep up the completely celeberty based sort of success that they have without being innovative, and this is just one more example of their innovation. They do this sort of thing better than almost anyone else these days. Sure, it can be a little gross, but keep in mind that many of the women following this family have their own weight issues anyway, and live the Kardashians' lives vicariously, while most of those who condemn Kim here don't follow her or her family.

... most of those who condemn Kim here don't follow her or her family.

Oh, please. I don't condemn her, there's nothing about her or her entire family worth condemnation. I laugh at her, and those who "follow her."

I simply say she's nothing I would follow...for any reason. I live in Dearborn right next to Detroit ... we've got plenty of overweight light medium and dark skinned chicks around, why would a fat Kardashian bump the give a dink meter? Kimaye is right up there with Honey Boo Boo's mom.

She is famous, sho nuff, as a symbol of our times. Doesn't everyone get knocked up by a boyfriend before their divorce is even near final?

Did anyone even see this sex tape? They all look like cattle to me. Maybe she gets over on skill? I daresay Bruce Jenner is the prettiest of the lot and that's not saying much. My God, sluts are sluts, you buy them by the pound.